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| Born | 25 January 1999 Tauranga, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Katikati Wildcats | ||||||||||||||
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Suraj Singh (born 25 January 1999) is a New Zealand freestyle wrestler.
Singh was born in Tauranga on 25 January 1999. [1] [2] He started wrestling when he was 11 years old, and wrestles for the Katikati Wildcats club in Katikati. [3]
At the 2019 Oceania Wrestling Championships, Singh won two gold medals. [3] He represented his county in the men's freestyle 57 kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, [1] where lost his bronze medal match against Pakistani athlete Ali Asad, but was subsequently awarded the bronze medal after Asad was disqualified for a doping violation. [3]
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Satpal Singh, also known as Guru Satpal, is a wrestling coach and former wrestler of India. He was a gold medalist in 1982 Asian Games and a bronze medalist in 1974 Asian Games. Today he is better known as the coach of Olympic medal winners Sushil Kumar and Ravi Kumar Dahiya.
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